ExpressionEngine vs. b2evolution vs. Blogger vs. FlatPress

General Features ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Version
1.6
2.4
N/A
0.1010
Release Date
2004-04-22 (19 years ago)
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
N/A
2009-01-23 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
EllisLab, Inc.
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
NoWhereMan (Edoardo Vacchi) and FlatPress Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
Proprietary
GPL
N/A
GPLv2
License Cost/ Fee
From 0$ - 249.95$
0 - Free
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Beta
Interface Languages
0
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
Yes
No
No
Hosting Features ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
System Requirements ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
N/A
PHP4, compatible with 5
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Solaris
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
Platform Independent
Webserver
IIS, Apache
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
Apache, works on IIS
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Other Requirements
PHP must have XML support
N/A
Datastorage ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Text Files
No
No
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
MS SQL Server
No
No
N/A
No
Other
No
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
Anti-Spam ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Akismet Support
Plugin
Plugin
N/A
Plugin
Word Blacklist
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
IP Ban List
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
Email Banning, secure forms, randomized Trackbacks, Bad Behavior extension
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
User Access Features ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Audit Log
Yes
Yes
No
No
LDAP Authentication
No
Plugin
N/A
Unknown
Other Authentication
No
OpenID plugin
N/A
Support ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Commercial Support
Yes
No
No
No
Online Help
http://expressionengine.com/support/
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Issue Tracker
http://expressionengine.com/bug_tracker/
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://www.flatpress.org/forums/
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Categorization
Multiple
Multiple
None
Multiple
Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
Pingback
No
No
Ping Service Support
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Protected Posts
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Blog by SMS/MMS
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blog API
Blogger, MovableType/Metaweblog
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
WordPress (plugin)
Post Editing ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Multi-paged posts
Yes
Yes
No
No
Spell Checker
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Undo
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Comment Features ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Flat
Flat
Feeds for Comments
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Open-ID Support
None
Client
None
Extended Features ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Google Sitemap
Optional
Yes
No
Patch
Workflow ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Content Approval
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Versioning
Yes
No
No
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
simple
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interoperability ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Content Import
MovableType, pMachine, RSS, CSV
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), CuteNews, WordPress
Content Export
MySQL
HTML via FTP/SFTP
SimplePHPBlog (native, almost), WordPress
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting ExpressionEngine b2evolution Blogger FlatPress
Podcast Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
YouTube Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Converter
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Phone2Podcast Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
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